J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Farnley Hall and Yorkshire c.1808-24 > Woodcock Shooting Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Study for a Classical Picture c.1812-13

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Study for a Classical Picture’ c.1812-13
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 40 Recto:
Study for a Classical Picture c.1812–13
D09114
Turner Bequest CXXIX 40
Ink on white wove paper, 178 x 110 mm
Trace of inscription by ?John Ruskin in red ink ‘40 [?]’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in brown ‘CXXIX 40’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is one of a series of studies for classical landscape subjects on an upright format. See notes to folio 20 verso, D09082, the first in the series.

David Hill
October 2008

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Study for a Classical Picture c.1812–13 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, October 2008, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, September 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-study-for-a-classical-picture-r1146836, accessed 26 April 2024.